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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...
Introduction Chin augmentation is the original and most common form of jaw augmentation surgery. For many patients, it may represent their only effort at lower facial enhancement. Although the chin comprises only about one-third of the total jaw surface area, its prominence makes it the most visually important component of the lower face. Consequently, many Read More…
Introduction Sliding (bony) genioplasty is a well-established technique for chin augmentation. Its main advantage is that it uses the patient’s own bone, avoiding the need for an implant. However, it has drawbacks: the bone cut can be angled in multiple ways, the resulting chin may take on an unnatural bony shape, and revisions are more Read More…
The sliding genioplasty remains the workhorse procedure for significant chin augmentation. Unless a patient specifically prefers to avoid an autologous bone procedure, it is almost always preferable to reposition the chin bone itself rather than place a large volume of implant material to achieve projection. However, even with substantial sliding genioplasty movements (10mm or more), Read More…
There are a lot of great benefits to a sliding genioplasty chin augmentation procedure but, like all procedures, it has its own unique complications and adverse postoperative sequelae. One of these postoperative issues that can occur is lower lip tightness. Like the upper lip the lower lip is very flexible through the depth of the Read More…
Background: The sliding genioplasty is a conceptually straightforward procedure. Cut the bone, move it forward and fix it into the desired new position.. It sounds simple enough but there are a lot of variables in its execution that can lead to an unsatisfactory outcome. The first important step is to determine the patient’s exact aesthetic Read More…
Background: Chin implants have the longest history of all aesthetic facial implants and is not rare to occasionally come across a patient with an ‘old’ chin implant from many decades ago. In the vast majority of these cases it will be a silicone implant and it is possible to see various iterations of earlier generation Read More…
Repositioning of the jaws is a well known method of treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with substantial forward movements. This works because the base of the tongue is pulled forward as dentoalveolar portion of the jaw moves forward and the soft palate similarly does so with the maxillary advancement. A smaller osteotomy on the lower Read More…
Chin augmentation can be done by a variety of methods from non-surgical injectable fillers to surgical implants and bone moving surgery. For some patients an initial non-surgical method is an appealing approach due to its immediate effect with no recovery. The most common fillers used for chin augmentation are hyaluron-based and there are a wide Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is a commonly performed aesthetic facial procedure for which an implant offers a simple solution. While effective for some the dissatisfaction with chin implant surgery is not insignificant. Many a chin implant have been successfully placed, as defined by a non-infected postoperative course (surgical success), but the patient did not achieve their Read More…
Background: The ‘debate’ between an implant and the sliding genioplasty for chin augmentation is an historic one and is often influenced by surgical specialty and patient preference. This debate can be largely irrelevant in modest chin augmentations where their aesthetic effects are more similar. But their aesthetic benefits begin to differ when the anatomic makeup Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...